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That’s why we see [ICE] floating numbers. They talk about doubling the space to hold people in these ICE jails,
We saw a movement to Guantánamo, ... which is the legal equivalent of a black hole.”
Wala said about Trump’s directive, We have report on report on conditions in these detention facilities that don’t provide basic health care, shackle women when pregnant, have not had protections for communicable diseases such as Covid,
said Raha Wala, a vice president of the National Immigration Law Center They called us and asked ‘Do you have room for 20?’ and brought them in,
Hildenbrand told NBC News Some of them are so bad that we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back,
Trump said of the migrants he plans to ship off to Guantanamo -- ... adding it When detention becomes prolonged and indefinite and untethered from proper oversight, it violates human rights and may amount to torture,
Guantanamo Bay is a perfect transit point to temporarily house the worst of the worst until we move them back to their home countries, who, as President Trump has made it very clear, better be prepared to take them robustly and soon, ... Because they sent them here, sent criminals, opened their jails. It affected our people. The president is reversing that. Guantanamo Bay will be a part of that."
Hegseth told "Fox and Friends," adding Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,
There's also the eventuality that we could have hardened criminals, hardened gang members with violent criminal pasts in transit,
It's a smart move. It's the perfect place,
Hegseth, who spent a year at Guantanamo Bay with the Army guarding detainees, told Fox News's Fox and Friends on Friday We don't want to put our personnel, any Americans, at risk in transit,
Going back to the '90s, there were tens of thousands of Haitians and Cuban migrants who were housed there because it was a transit point in the Caribbean, and I knew of those places when I was there, and those we're gonna stand up fairly quickly,
This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty.”
The order additionally states The facilities at Guantanamo have become emblematic of the gross human rights abuses and torture perpetrated by the US government in the name of counterterrorism.”
In the same report, Amnesty said Thus they will have the same rights as any refugee – more, in fact, as Trump has already unwisely said he can’t send them home, which means there will be a strong case that they cannot be held indefinitely,
In this bill, if a person is so much as accused of a crime, if someone wants to point a finger and accuse someone of shoplifting, they would be rounded up and put into a private detention camp and sent out for deportation without a day in court,
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was quoted by The Associated Press news agency as saying Anyone who commits a crime should be held accountable. That’s why I voted to pass the Laken Riley Act,
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat from Nevada, wrote on X on January 20. Bush said his Guantanamo scheme would help end terrorism, and it did precisely the opposite. Trump’s scheme will likewise make the US less safe, rather than more,
Clive Stafford Smith, one of the first human rights lawyers to gain entry to the prison after it opened and whose clients include Guantanamo inmates, told Al Jazeera Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity”.
On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order titled Today’s signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all.”
